amused - Story 4023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The corners of Clara's mouth tilted upwards, her shoulders shaking with a silent, internal mirth. She held up the drawing, her heart swelling with an emotion she couldn't quite define. The figure, drawn in thick, clumsy lines, was unmistakable. Captain Calico, her childhood pirate, complete with a parrot on his shoulder and a perpetually crooked smile. Now, he was resurrected in her nephew, Finn’s, artwork.

"Finn," she said, her voice a little breathy, "who's this?"

Finn, engrossed in coloring, glanced at the picture, then back at his aunt. “Captain Calico. He sails the bathtub and fights the rubber duckies.”

Clara clutched the drawing to her chest, her stomach doing a little flip. She felt a lightness, a buoyancy she hadn't anticipated.

Emotion: amused

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.32 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 1.25

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion amused. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 amused stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the amused emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the amused vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`B`	0.841
`de`	0.742
`l`	0.544
`L`	0.527
`"`	0.514

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.630
`😞`	-0.523
`’`	-0.473
`ness`	-0.437
`urges`	-0.403